typical america moment
you get ID’d at the library.
Books? We must protect the children!
Guns? Oh, no take the children before my guns!
Land of the free indeed.
This is the stupidest timeline.
The fact that the stupidity is intentional and the desired result is the rub. Stupid, uneducated people are less likely to think critically and more likely to accept and support whatever bullshit
the political party behind all this shitRepublicans spew out.
If I was a librarian, I wouldn't enforce this stupid bullshit.
as a former public librarian, i can tell you there are absolutely boomer losers with nothing to do who will sit there and make sure someone's enforcing it. so fucking glad i work at an academic library now and no one can say shit when i put the gayest books in existence on display
I'd be surprised if any do. I haven't heard of a single librarian that's been in favor of these shenanigans anywhere.
These lunatics are working on making prison time the punishment for that, so good luck.
I'm willing to be arrested for breaking stupid laws that shouldn't exist.
I wonder what the penalty for that is.
All part of the plan. The less educated the children are, the easier they can be exploited.
Yeah. Keep them kids out of the library. They should be at home on the internet where they will only be exposed to wholesome content.
Risky click of the day
Then when you need heart surgery, complain that your doctor is from another country.
This post is pretty out of context. https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/04/10/idaho-libraries-must-move-materials-deemed-harmful-to-children-or-face-lawsuits-under-new-law/
Some libraries are doing things like this as a form of protest. The law doesn't require such a stringent process as this, but that's irrelevant. What's relevant is the law is infringing on freedom of speech by regulating libraries' content.
I don't see how the law doesn't require libraries to go 18+ to be free of liability.
The language in this law is extremely broad. If anyone finds anything that they find objectionable in the children's section, they can sue the librarians.
There's literally no way to protect yourself against this but to bar all children from the library, unless they have parental supervision. This ensures that the parent remains liable since they have become an obligated chaperone while inside the library.
There's no way to actually remove all the "offensive" content from the children's section, because there's no way to actually know what books that the extremists this law was created to enable will object to next.
That it has the added effect of humiliating the Republicans who passed it by showing what it logically leads to, and angering parents who can no longer drop their kids off at the library, may be helpful in opposing this, but it looks like it's just the predictable result of short-sighted reactionary lawmaking.
This is fucking grim.
I posted this on my FB feed. One lady argued that it was down to parental rights to control what their kids consumed. I said just stay out of the public library and public schools, but she said that was not a "good faith" argument.
The irony is using "good faith" to impose their beliefs onto others was lost on her.
And can't go to the library.
This is by design.
The talibangeicals are winning.
So the under 18 mother who was forced to carry a child can't take that child to a library or even go herself.
Yep, that tracks.
Hatred and malice disguised as Christianity
There’s no disguise
Yeah, Christianity used to be way more open and tolerant in the past.
Nobody expects the Inquisition
As a rabblerouser above 18, if I browse the Restricted Stacks and accidentally forget them in the YA stacks, how much shit would those librarians be put through?
Why bother with that? I say go full Robin Hood, steal the restricted books and give them away to the youth. Or, if you've got the resources, run a black market library. It would be kinda like a speakeasy, with a password and a doorman and shit. Call it a "readeasy"? Since you're not supposed to talk in a library and all that.
I'd say, whatever you do, it has to be obvious that the librarians are innocent. So I'd say 'accidentally' forgetting the stacks in the wrong section is out.
Depends on whether you've got LibsOfTikTok on the case.
Maybe the whole library gets defunded, idk.
They're not playing the game in good faith. Please don't help the bad people shut down libraries.
What's an unrestricted library card?
Is restricted card for under 18 a thing?
It is now. In Idaho. Coming to other red states soon enough.
I wonder how much money is spent on paper and ink for the affidavits. And I guess the extra workers, inside and outside of the library, needed to process and file them all.
Hah! You think they actually put in place the infrastructure needed to support this asinine policy. If there aren't enough people to get the affidavits signed then those kids can't go expose themselves to dangerous ideas, presumably including "trans people exist" and "slavery was bad, actually".
See also voter ID laws that just happen to come into effect as the DMV offices in poor and/or black neighborhoods close down. If they make it a sufficient pain in the ass they don't have to take the legal or political flak for outright banning it.
Yes, it seems that I stupidly overlooked that the purpose isn't to make things difficult to look at via bureaucracy but instead to make things impossible to look at via the lack of resources to comply.
If girls are allowed to read, then they might be able to figure out how terribly they're treated. We obviously can't have that.
What a fucking shithole
What a thing to steal and nail to your door lmao.
We should just landscape over the entire middle with forests and solar panels. Not Louisiana, you can stay but as a warning to everyone between you and New Mexico and Colorado.
Why do you want Louisiana to stay?
Hey MN is cool.
Restrict access to education and information. Which rule number of acquisition is this?
